New York Times: “defending the morality . . . of the Lesbian maid," June 21, 1871

"praising the poetry of the Lesbian maid"

Surveying articles in the Atlantic magazine of July 1871, an article in the New York Times reports:

Professor [Thomas Wentworth] Higginson contributes a pleasant article on “Sappho,” defending the morality and praising the poetry of the Lesbian maid;